{"id":1114,"date":"2011-07-20T12:21:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T16:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2011-07-20T12:21:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T16:21:33","slug":"windy-city-kickoff-for-asi-smartsales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/2011\/07\/20\/windy-city-kickoff-for-asi-smartsales\/","title":{"rendered":"Windy City Kickoff for ASI SmartSales"},"content":{"rendered":"

ASI chose its Chicago show \u2013 the biggest industry event of summer \u2013 to offer a sneak peek of its biggest technology investment in years: ASI SmartSales\u2122 <\/a>. The Oracle-powered<\/a> tech platform is a customized solution for maximizing sales and revenue opportunities.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to watch the SmartSales video for yourself. Read the press release we dropped to the industry here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ASI spent millions researching and developing SmartSales, a high-tech sales and marketing tool to help distributors and decorators close more sales and increase profits with modules dedicated to sales management, marketing campaigns and revenue-generating capabilities.<\/p>\n

ASI expects the rollout of the new service to begin in the fourth quarter. Expect an announcement shortly about an upcoming customized Oracle-powered technology platform designed exclusively for suppliers.<\/p>\n

We paid a lot of attention to the security aspect of this new business platform, leveraging Oracle<\/a>\u2019s cloud-based technologies with all of ASI\u2019s products to create a unique, highly secure platform consisting of a hybrid implementation of cloud and locally hosted software and databases.<\/p>\n

The new technology will include the core ASI services vital to members\u2019 success, allowing them to access ESP<\/a> for comprehensive product sourcing from 3,400 suppliers; ASI ProfitMaker, which provides ERP and financial management capabilities; ASI LogoMall; their own company websites; exclusive ASI research<\/a>; and the latest professional development resources<\/a> available for BASI\/MASI certification.
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ASI distributors with ESP who are interested in being the first to receive ASI SmartSales when it becomes available should e-mail smartsales@asicentral.com<\/a>\u00a0or visit www.asicentral.com\/smartsales<\/a>. Members who want to sign up for ESP and ASI SmartSales should call their ASI account executive at 800-546-1350.<\/p>\n

The video demos were just one of the many highlights at ASI Chicago<\/a>, which takes place through Thursday at McCormick Place<\/a> convention complex. If you\u2019re at the show, I hope you\u2019re enjoying yourself.<\/p>\n

If you had a chance to see the video, let me know what you think by posting a comment or e-mailing me here<\/a>. I\u2019m also on Twitter<\/a>, LinkedIn<\/a> and YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ASI chose its Chicago show \u2013 the biggest industry event of summer \u2013 to offer a sneak peek of its biggest technology investment in years: ASI SmartSales\u2122 . The Oracle-powered tech platform is a customized solution for maximizing sales and revenue opportunities. Click here to watch the SmartSales video for yourself. Read the press release […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,5,29,8,25,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asi-shows","category-industry-initiatives","category-member-benefits","category-news-about-asi","category-research","category-using-ad-specialties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}